What is the Difference Between Hard Return and Soft Return?

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Here are the differences between hard return and soft return: 1. Performance: Hard return occupies two bytes. In Word, pressing the enter key inputs a hard return. Hard return is a true paragraph marker, with text between two hard returns forming an independent paragraph; Soft return is sometimes seen as a downward straight arrow when text copied from a webpage is pasted into Word, occupying only one byte. Soft return is Word's automatic processing to adapt to webpage formats. 2. Advantages: Hard return allows separate paragraph formatting without affecting other paragraphs, facilitating typesetting; Soft return can significantly reduce the visible line spacing between two lines, but in settings, its line spacing is no different from that of hard return.